TY - JOUR
T1 - FDG PET Appearance of "Cannonball" Pulmonary Metastases
AU - Meka, Murali
AU - Bommireddipalli, Srinivas
AU - Killam, Jonathan
AU - Bhargava, Peeyush
AU - Depuey, E. Gordon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 The Authors.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We present the case of a 67-year-old woman with a recent tissue diagnosis of endometrial cancer whose FDG PET scan exhibited multiple hypermetabolic foci through out both the lungs. Contemporaneously acquired conventional radiolographs showed parenchymal nodules that demonstrated the classic "cannon ball" appearance of pulmonary metastases. Pulmonary metastasis from an endometrial primary is a rare event, as are the presence of pulmonary findings at the time of initial staging. Thus, this case demonstrates rare, and yet, distinctive aspects of the disease presentation and image correlation across the various imaging modalities.
AB - We present the case of a 67-year-old woman with a recent tissue diagnosis of endometrial cancer whose FDG PET scan exhibited multiple hypermetabolic foci through out both the lungs. Contemporaneously acquired conventional radiolographs showed parenchymal nodules that demonstrated the classic "cannon ball" appearance of pulmonary metastases. Pulmonary metastasis from an endometrial primary is a rare event, as are the presence of pulmonary findings at the time of initial staging. Thus, this case demonstrates rare, and yet, distinctive aspects of the disease presentation and image correlation across the various imaging modalities.
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U2 - 10.2484/rcr.v4i3.152
DO - 10.2484/rcr.v4i3.152
M3 - Article
C2 - 27307814
AN - SCOPUS:84964381143
SN - 1930-0433
VL - 4
SP - 152
JO - Radiology Case Reports
JF - Radiology Case Reports
IS - 3
M1 - 152
ER -